Site administrators handle the regular operational tasks of a Drupal web application. They carry out their responsibilities via the Site administration interface, and will typically hand off more technical tasks to a Site builder.
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A Skilled Drupal site administrator should be able to do the following via the administration interface:

  • Configure and manage common Drupal components (content, media, comments, blocks, menus, users, views, etc.)
  • Modify common site features and confirm the outcomes
  • Revert revisions
  • Review reports on site health

An Expert Drupal site administrator should additionally be able to do the following via the administration interface:

  • Serve as the first level of support to user account holders
  • Find and understand all administration pages available via the Administration menu
  • Perform a security review of site configuration
  • Enable and disable site-installed contributed projects
  • Toggle maintenance mode
  • Clear caches
  • Regenerate site search indexes
  • Adjust cron automated task settings when cron is managed via the administration interface

Roles and Tasks that require this skill

Accessibility group member (Contributor role)
Improve the accessibility of Drupal core and contributed modules, themes, and distributions
Duration: ongoing
Discover Drupal mentor (Contributor role)
Share your experience and expertise with an underrepresented student in the Discover Drupal program
Duration: ongoing
Drupal core subsystem maintainer (Contributor role)
Oversee the development of a module, theme, or other subset of Drupal core
Duration: ongoing
Drupal core topic maintainer (Contributor role)
Review issues in a given topic in Drupal core
Duration: ongoing
Manually test a proposed fix for an issue (Contributor task)
Manually test a patch or merge request that has been proposed as the fix for an issue
Duration: 20 minutes
Software tester (Contributor role)
Manually test Drupal core or contributed modules, themes, or distributions
Duration: ongoing
Triage an issue report (Contributor task)
Evaluate and fix up or close a bug report issue
Duration: 20 minutes
Usability group member (Contributor role)
Improve the usability of Drupal core and contributed modules, themes, and distributions
Duration: ongoing

Roles and Tasks that may use this skill

Documentation editor (Contributor role)
Edit and proofread Drupal documentation
Duration: ongoing
Edit or review a documentation page (Contributor task)
Review, proofread, or edit a documentation page that has been flagged as needing attention
Duration: 1 hour
Provide support via text chat (Contributor task)
Answer questions, provide suggestions and resources to another user through text chat.
Duration: 20 minutes
Provide support via text forums (Contributor task)
Answer questions on Drupal Support forums or Drupal Answers (Stack Exchange).
Duration: 20 minutes
Resolve a Documentation issue report (Contributor task)
Fix a documentation problem that was identified in a Documentation issue report
Duration: 20 minutes